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HTC’s Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week [which is] especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break [HTC] One. … HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession [including the] vice president of global communications…global retail marketing manager…director of digital marketing…and product strategy manager. … [As] one source told us…”They’re in utter freefall.”

The HTC One launched mostly to rave reviews. But the flagship HTC phone found itself, yet again, in the shadow of Samsung. … It doesn’t help that HTC’s golden phone has been hamstrung by manufacturing shortages. … Of all the Android phone manufacturers, HTC seems to be trying the hardest [but] the investment appears not to be paying off fast enough.

For HTC, when it rains, it pours [which] doesn’t bode well for the company’s future. … [It's] perhaps not surprising given the company’s rough ride of late. … With HTC’s fall from prominence in the U.S., it’s possible — likely even — that [it] consolidates operations back to [Taiwan]. …it may make sense for HTC to concentrate more effort on the bigger opportunities in Asia. To do so really doesn’t require much of a U.S. presence, sadly.

Sales plummeted nearly 37 per cent in Q1 2013…profit [dropped] 98 per cent. … The firm does appear to be doing decently well in China [and] it does appear to have a powerful ally after North Korean despot Kim Jong-un was snapped using what appeared to be one of its Desire handsets.

HTC Asia’s CEO Lennard Hoornik has also left. … While it’s unclear if his departure is related…the number of high-level exits in such a short period doesn’t bode well. … HTC Asia informs us that during this transition period, CFO Chang Chia Lin will be providing leadership in South Asia.

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If you need a reason not to buy Samsung check Foxnews tech for this story: men-are-idiots-samsung-says. The latest ad from Samsung makes men out to be neanderthal and when the wife plugs in the Samsung module, they become doting feminized metrosexuals.

If you like sexism, and the ad is appealing, great. If not, why encourage more male bashing? Do I even need to point out the reverse? What if Samsung ad #2:

Plugging a Samsung module into the fat, slovenly, narcissistic wife, and she loses 40 lbs, cleans and decorates, cooks fabulously, keeps a realistic budget, has a martini and slippers waiting when “daddy” gets home, and of course, becomes a sexual “animal”.

I waiting for Samsung to produce commercial number 2. And of course, that’s what it will be, “No 2″.

5 million sold is excellent for a new phone. Only reason why Galaxy S4 sold more was because it has its previous versions that everyone liked. The HTC One was/is brand new compared to the S4. Galaxy line up has been around longer so it’s expected to sell a little bit more. I am highly impressed with the HTC One and the design of the phone is killer compared to other phones in my personal opinion.